This is a dedicated thread for users to bounce around and brainstorm on ideas for new roles, items, game mechanics or anything else to improve and build upon our beloved Mafia game.
Back in 2015 Sims made a thread asking if anyone had any ideas for roles since Lucid was looking to make some new ones (found here: https://epicmafia.com/topic/71173?page=1) That thread's dead now, but it's always good to try to bring the community together and come up with new stuff for the game.
Some of you might know my reputation for designing new roles and my passion for Mafia. EpicMafia is a pretty cool website and can always use some new stuff to spice up and remix the usual game formula, and I know a few of you have ideas of your own.
NOTE: If you're here to complain about Sandbox moderation or the site mods, please don't.
ok, broken knives should work now. also anarchist bomb time limit dropped by a bit.
deletedover 8 years
I can't remember if someone brought this up but i remember talking with a few people about it last year. Is there any reason that the gunshot noise is at 100% volume while everything else is at like 60%? It's very frightening when not expected.
yeah. i forgot about this but far more often than not you can just veg the bomb holder.
additionally, if the upper limit is drastically reduced, it might be a good idea to raise the lower limit so there aren't tons and tons of 1-second bombs.
@Lucid can you increase the capacity of # of people in a game for survivor? It's currently capped at 25 I think, but I know some sandbox setups that exceed that number by a lot. It would just help with hosting larger games, thanks!
I just played as a monkey and I think more animals would be cool, imagine one day a 12 player game of unique animal roles it could be called a zoo game. I'll try to think of some simple animal ones
Heroic Dog (or just Dog): -Town sided -Can pick someone at night -If that person gets shot during the next day, the dog is hit instead (like '(Name) leapt in the way!'), and whoever shot the gun is made naked
Cat: -Non-Meeting Mafia -Can choose someone's lap to sit on at night. The next day, that person does not vote, like a tree. Can only be used once a game. It would be like the cat is sitting on your lap so you're too distracted lol, and I thought as bad guys always stroke cats it would be a non-meeting mafia like it doesn't realize it's on the bad team
Dodo: -Third Party -Has to go extinct (die) to win, but starts with a vest and also bleeds. Doesn't win if it gets lynched. Kind of like a fool but by dying in a different way. Maybe one more 'health point' would be necessary to make it fair but I don't know how.
deletedover 8 years
This is cute, I just think of an EM meet up during winter with everyone throwing snowballs. Minus the people getting killed part.
deletedover 8 years
this is pretty important. because the bomb timer isn't regulated, you can pass the bomb up until the very end of kicks and cause another player to veg.
i'm glad that main lobby knows how to have some fun
deletedover 8 years
@Lucid, Could you reduce the upper limit on anarchist bomb timers?
I'm not sure exactly what the upper limit is for timers, but it can get obscenely long. Sometimes it feels like it goes on for more than five minutes and artifically extends the life of the game when everyone has their votes locked in, but there's really no reason for it to ever be more than a minute because 'passing the bomb' is extremely repetitive gameplay that gets boring fast.
It'd be cool to implement ranked closed roles games too btw.
For those who don't want ranked games, you can always not play ranked games and problem is solved, but people that do want to play them have no option but to not play them as it is.
deletedover 8 years
getting hit with a snowball should print a system message at night saying "you are frozen and cannot move!" or something along those lines
deletedover 8 years
Back in the day, years ago, he planned on making the survivor engine, which would make hosts able to mute players, and kick people, and just make hosting survivor much easier and make it better.
